Australia.


Offering commercial legal advice to not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises.

Providing legal advice, information and advocacy to those fighting climate change.


MinterEllison (ME) has a unique dedicated Social Enterprise (SE) and Social Impact team, providing charity and SE governance advice as a key practice area. Through this practice, ME assists numerous environmental organisations in establishing profit for purpose and not-for-profit (NFP) entities and hybrid structures, drafting tailored governance documents and policies and advising on day-to-day funding agreements. These include: Protect our Winters and For Wild Places (mobilising the winter sports and outdoor communities to protect the environment); Women’s Environmental Leadership Aust (promoting women’s leadership in climate action); Plant for the Planet (reafforestation movement) and Indigo Power (community based and controlled renewable energy). During Covid19, ME supported Moving Feast – a collection of SEs in the food/logistics system collaborating to meet the needs of disadvantaged communities during the pandemic. Working with charity STREAT, ME developed the collective contractual and governance framework. Keith Rovers, MinterEllison Partner said: ‘There are many NFPs and SEs doing great work tackling climate related and sustainability issues, from direct action supporting reafforestation, carbon farming, new bio-products, circular economy models, as well as those supporting employment transitions and addressing social aspects of climate related transition risk – we see great opportunity to use our commercial and legal skills to help these organisations make positive environmental and social impact and achieve sustainability’.

PILnet
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. For our full privacy policy, click here.